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State Penitentiary Prisons Out of Place
An exposé describes unsanitary and dangerous conditions at the state penitentiary. Prisoners suffer heat and crowding in the cell block and women’s ward, with no running water or hospital facilities for women, while the basement stores volatile supplies and the hog lot reeks along the river. Authorities acknowledge the failure of patchwork fixes and call for abandonment of the medieval prison in favor of a modern, sanitary facility.
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